Penholder.



G. W. BOMAN.

PENHOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.29, 1913.

1,067,713, Patented July 15, 1913.

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CLAES W. BOMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR '10 EAGLE PENCILCOMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PENHOLDER.

To all "whom, it may concern Be it known that I, Guns ROMAN, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have inventedcertain. new andv useful Improvements in Penholders, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to that kind of penholder in which the pen, wheninserted ready for use, is held substantially in line with the axis ofthe holder. Such a penholder, broadly considered, is old and commonproperty.

My invention consists in a certain simple,

' cheap and effective construction of the penholder tip for the purposeabove indicated, which will first be described in connection with theaccompanying drawings, and will then be more particularly pointed out inthe claim.

In the accompanying drawiugslf i gure 1 shows in side elevation, partlyin section, a penholder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the penholder tip removed from the penholder. Fig. 3 is a. crosssection on line 38 Fig. 1. 4 is a View of a sheet metal blank from whichmy improved penholder may be fashioned.

The body of the penholder consists of a penhandle A having in its frontend a socket to receive the penholder tip, which socket is formed in thepresent instance by av cork covered sheet-metal barrel B atlixed to, andprotruding beyond the front end of the pen handle, and secured in placein any usual or suitable way.

The penholder tip consists of a cylindrical body C which fits snugly inthe barrel and is there held in any desired way; a concave-convex penclasp D between the leaves of which the pen is inserted and held, as indieated at P by dotted lines in Fig. 1.; and an intern'iediate neck Econnecting together the body C and the pen clasp D, and inwardly offsetto place the clasp D in such relation to the longitudinal axis of theholder, that the pen, when inserted in place in the clasp, will be heldsubstantially in the line of said axis, as indicated in Fig. 1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 29, 1913 Patented July 15, 1913.

Serial No. 757,560.

The neck E can have a slight spring action, so that the clasp may havean upward spring yielding movement to the pressure of the pen when inuse, if desired, this movement being permitted owing to the open spacesin the barrel above and below the clasp and the fact that the side edgesof the clasp do not make a close lit with the interior of the barrel, asindicated in Fig. 3, which is a cross sectional view through the barreland pen clasp on line 33 Fig. 1.

The penholder tip can be formed in one integral piece from a sheet metalblank such as shown in Fig. 4, wherein 1 is the portion from which thecylindrical body C of said tip is formed; 2 is the part from which theneck E is formed; and 3, 4t, 4t, is the part from which the clasp D isformed, 4, at, being the lips which are bent over upon the centralportion of the clasp to form the leaves between which the pen insertet 3forming one leaf. and the lips 4t, 4, forming the other leaf. Bysuitable dies and shaping tools, well known in the art, a penholder tipsuch as represented in Fig. 2 can readily and cheaply be formed in oneintegral piece from this blank. The sheet metal neck E of this devicewill have a slight spring action, the degree or extent of which will, ofcourse, be determined by the length of the neck and the resiliency ofthe sheet metal.

Vhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A sheet metal penholder tip made in one piece and cons sting of thetubular body (l. the pen clasp D. and the neck E intermediate betweenand connecting together said parts, and inwardly offset to place the penclasp substantially in line with the longitudinal axis of the holder, asand for the purposes hereinbcfore shown and described.

In testimony whereof I atiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLAES \V. ROMAN.

lVitnesses L. FIsCHLEIN, GEORGE BITTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

